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American Heritage Dials Up Comfort Food in Encino

American Heritage is a new Encino gastropub that opened to start December. A grey facade and planters usher guests into a space featuring brick and wood, including a bar and communal tables with attached seats that swing out from the legs. Pinball games, including Revenge From Mars and Pirates of the Caribbean, are playable by the entrance. Further […]

American Heritage is a new Encino gastropub that opened to start December. A grey facade and planters usher guests into a space featuring brick and wood, including a bar and communal tables with attached seats that swing out from the legs. Pinball games, including Revenge From Mars and Pirates of the Caribbean, are playable by the entrance. Further back you’ll find a big American flag, a trio of decorative guitars and multiple flat-screen TVs. Jeweler Sharon Sapir and Joe Even, who previously ran Bocca Steakhouse on-site and still runs Ditmas in Beverlywood, are business partners.

Chef Jonathan Villalba steers the gastropub’s kitchen, making all sauces and pickles in-house and grinding grass-fed beef in back. Shareable starters include breaded shrimp with cocktail sauce and lemon, indulgent lobster mac ‘n’ cheese, and the cheeky “just another poke.” Playful names spill over in the Greens section, where a “Titanic” salad stars an iceberg wedge, bacon, tomatoes and blue cheese dressing with Gorgonzola.